President Joe Biden has no regrets.
In his first interview since exiting the White House in January, the 82-year-old addressed the timing of his exit from the 2024 presidential race, which saw Vice President Kamala Harris step in to run against President Donald Trump.
Looking back, Biden, who exited the race last July, doesn’t think passing the baton any earlier would have made a difference in the outcome, which saw Trump ultimately defeat Harris.
“I don’t think it would have mattered,” he said during an interview with the BBC shared May 7. “We left at a time when we had a good candidate, she was fully funded. And what happened was, what we had set out to do—no one thought we could do it. And we’d become so successful, with our agenda it was hard to say, now I’m going to stop now.”
Biden continued, “I meant what I said when I started, that I’m prepared to hand this to the next generation, the transition government. But things moved so quickly, that it made it difficult to walk away. And it was a hard decision.”
